Ed Minch queries:

>>Can anyone else remember a day with 3 - count 'em - 3 new bios??
Welcome all!

How's about four? I'm a re-subscribing lurker, back to the list after
about four years - I finally have shop space again after getting married
(SWMBO _insisted_ that I have a shop - Huzzah! It works for her because
it's three floors away in our big ol' Victorian). I started sliding down
the slope about ten years ago, making my own mallets, handles, bowsaw,
etc., and after comparing Roy's performances to Norm's, I knew which way
to go. Made a bunch of larger pieces back then (standing desk, 10-ft
trestle table for my brother). I've been accumulating...erm...shiny
things...for some time and now I'm able to remove the rust from my
skills, so I'm back at it.

I'm an IT consultant going back to work shortly after getting caught in
the Bubble - all SA work, big projects and problem-solving. I make my
money from the weirdnesses of the IT Borg (that's Microsoft), but at
heart, I'm a Linux/*BSD geek.

I am also the victim of what my friend Bob (a fellow sufferer) calls IAD
- Instrument Acquisition Disorder. At this point I'm up to 3 dizis,
pennywhistles, a concertina, bodhran, guitar, mandolin, tenor sax, erhu,
banhu, and two pianos (the latter are really SWMBO's, but they still
count). I can even sort of play a few of them. As I consider trying to
combine both afflictions, I wonder - do we have any other proto-luthiers
on the Porch?

Glad to be on the best list I've ever seen (and I've run a few),

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